0:00:07 > 0:00:11PHONE RINGS
0:00:17 > 0:00:20RINGING CONTINUES
0:00:20 > 0:00:22RINGING STOPS
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- Body was found this morning. - Time?- Just after six.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56INDISTINCT
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Soca are on their way, sir.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08The body was burned in an attempt to conceal evidence.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Early results from pathology suggest likely cause of death
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- a blow to the side of the head.- Time of death?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16- Some time last night but we're still waiting.- Possessions?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18- Set of keys, some coins. - Mobile phone?- No.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22DNA, we've got a match.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Aron Bowen, 39 years old,
0:03:24 > 0:03:29released from prison six months ago after serving 13 years for murder.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35He was convicted in 2001 for the murder of Abi Watkins.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Girlfriend?
0:03:36 > 0:03:41- Yeah.- Have they got any kids? - A little girl, sir, Ffion.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43She was four years old when her mother was murdered.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48- Domestic dispute?- Abi was stabbed but they never found the weapon.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Bowen said he was innocent, never changed his story.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55According to Bowen they fought, she hit him,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59he hit her back then Bowen left the house.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02He came back the next morning to find Abi dead.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05It says here, the defendant fled the scene of the crime -
0:04:05 > 0:04:07why run if you're innocent?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Maybe he was guilty.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Get onto probation, find out the terms of his release
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- and when he was last in contact. - Yes, sir.- What about his family?
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Do we know where they live?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Ynyslas Boatyard in Borth, place is run by the Bowens,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Aron's brother Cal and his wife, Delyth.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52HAMMERING
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Delyth Bowen?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Yes, how...can I help you?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20We're here about your brother-in-law, Aron Bowen.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22I'm afraid he was found dead this morning.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- What happened? - We found his body on the beach,
0:05:27 > 0:05:29we have reason to think that he was murdered.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Did you or your husband have any contact with Aron since
0:05:35 > 0:05:37his release from prison?
0:05:37 > 0:05:39No.
0:05:39 > 0:05:46No, my husband...he and his brother haven't spoken for years.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Why is that?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Because of what he did.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Is that your daughter?
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- Aron's daughter.- Ffion?- Yes.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03We brought her up as our own.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07After what happened, there was nowhere else for her to go.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Is your husband around, Mrs Bowen?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13I'd like to talk to him.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16He's in the yard.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Mr Bowen!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53You don't seem very upset.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56I always knew it would end like this.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- Where were you last night, Mr Bowen?- Porthmadog.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05I was picking up supplies, got home around eight.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Tell me about your brother.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14- What about him? - Well, were you and he ever close?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18- Well, once...that was before... - Before he murdered Abi Watkins?
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Before he wrecked everything.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23They should never have released him.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25What about Ffion?
0:07:25 > 0:07:30Aron's daughter, do you think she feels the same way?
0:07:30 > 0:07:32He was never a father to her.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35We're the only family she's ever known.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Ffion has spent the last 13 years rebuilding her life.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47If that means anything to you, stay away from her.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54And what about Aron's parents, your mother and father,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- can I speak to them?- My father died nine years ago, stroke.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- What about your mother? - You're welcome to try.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Annes Bowen?
0:08:35 > 0:08:40I know why you're here. Delyth called me from the yard.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41I'm sorry for your loss.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Did you have any contact with your son after his release?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54No.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00I wanted to see him, but... it was too hard.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04- I didn't know what to say to him. - You were still angry with him?
0:09:06 > 0:09:10He should have stayed away. There was nothing for him here.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Not any more.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14He was your son.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18He brought shame on us all, killing that girl.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22And now he's dead.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Ffion! Wait!
0:09:32 > 0:09:34You're wasting your time here.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38It's not me you should be talking to, it's them.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39The family of the Watkins girl.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45They always wanted to see my son dead. And now...
0:09:45 > 0:09:47they've got what they wanted.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58It's all right, it's all right.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00It's going to be all right, OK?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02It's all right.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Marc Watkins. - On the corner there, mate.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Marc Watkins?
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- Did you know he'd been released? - Yeah.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Had you seen him about?- No.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Haven't seen him since the day they put him away.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55How do you feel knowing that the man who murdered your sister is dead?
0:10:57 > 0:11:02- I don't feel anything. Should I?- Well, you tell me.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08They should have done us all a favour and drowned him at birth!
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Those two should never have got together.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16We told her and we warned her.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19It's just our bad luck she chose him.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Her bad luck too.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Where were you last night, Mr Watkins?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I was with my father at his house.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37All night.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Thank you, Mr Watkins.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53I've spoken to probation services.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Aron Bowen missed two scheduled appointments.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59His file was flagged on the national database last week.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Have we got an address for him?
0:12:00 > 0:12:04- 'Yeah, home and work, sending them over to you now.'- Thanks.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Hope we got the right key now.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Have we met before?
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Mr Latimer helped us
0:12:29 > 0:12:32with our enquiries in the Devil's Bridge case.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34So you did.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54There's a switch here somewhere.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07Aron Bowen - what was he like?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Couldn't say. Kept a pretty low profile.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13You didn't ask any questions?
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Well, it wasn't my place to.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19But I could see by the way he carried himself there was...
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- There was something going on with him.- What do you mean?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25I got the impression he was trying to...
0:13:25 > 0:13:27make a go of it, trying to start again.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Good luck to him, I thought.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Did he have any friends?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Er... A man came over to see him couple of times. Er...
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Can't say I got much of a chance to look at him.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Did you get a name?- No, I'm sorry.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Dark hair...
0:13:48 > 0:13:50about the same age.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Aron Bowen worked for a drainage firm out on the marshes.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04He got the job through a friend, a man called Craig Jones.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05They went to school together, apparently.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07I've been trying to contact the company,
0:15:07 > 0:15:09but the office is closed for the day.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11The calls keep going straight to voicemail.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12Sir!
0:15:15 > 0:15:18I've dug out everything I can on the Abi Watkins case.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Repeated applications for retrial. Defendant claimed he was innocent.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24But he also said that his girlfriend
0:15:24 > 0:15:26was seeing someone else behind his back.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30Another man. Reckoned it was this other man that killed Abi.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38Can you look into this, please?
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Yes, sir.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47'I just knew.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50'The way she looked at me.
0:15:53 > 0:15:54'The way she was around me.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59'You can tell when a woman's cheating on you.
0:16:00 > 0:16:05'I loved Abi, I would never hurt her. She was the mother of my child.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08'Is that right?
0:16:09 > 0:16:12'So what about the marks on her face?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14'We argued.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17'It got out of hand, it was an accident.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19'And the fact she ended up dead?'
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Tom?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23'Was that an accident, too?
0:16:23 > 0:16:27- 'I think you killed Abi Watkins because you were jealous.- No!
0:16:28 > 0:16:30'Jealous that she was seeing another man.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- 'No! That's not what happened! - Oh, I think it is.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36' I think that's exactly what happened.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40'Why won't you listen to me? Why won't anyone listen to me?!
0:16:40 > 0:16:43'I didn't kill Abi Watkins. It was the other man.'
0:16:53 > 0:16:55All the evidence was against him.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Blood on his clothes, fleeing the scene of the crime.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- He had motive and opportunity. - An open-and-shut case.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- What about the man he claimed Abi was seeing?- Fabrication.
0:17:03 > 0:17:0513 years of trying to overturn his conviction,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07you don't think that counts for something?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Bowen was guilty, he just refused to admit it.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Some men do that.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19The pathologist on the investigation, Dr Haydn Blake...
0:17:19 > 0:17:20I want to talk to him.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22No.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24All the evidence you need is on record.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Iwan Thomas.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37What about him?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Have you had any further contact with him?
0:17:41 > 0:17:42No.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Good.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48KNOCK AT DOOR
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Yep?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Sir, there's someone in reception to see you.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Ffion Bowen, the victim's daughter.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23My mother used to read to me.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Every night.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29I used to lie next to her.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Her hair...
0:18:35 > 0:18:37..it was so soft.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42And then she was gone.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Have you had any contact with your father since his release?
0:18:53 > 0:18:54We met up.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58A couple of times.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Does your uncle know?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02He wouldn't approve?
0:19:04 > 0:19:05That's one way of putting it.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11I wrote to my father a few years back.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17There were things that I wanted to know.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Where they first met.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Where they used to go with each other.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Your uncle Cal, he thinks...
0:19:34 > 0:19:36He thinks your father killed your mother.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40How about you?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43No.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48I think my father was telling the truth.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Why do you say that?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55When I was little...
0:19:58 > 0:20:00..there was a man.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03He used to come to the house...
0:20:05 > 0:20:08..when Dad wasn't there.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10- Are you sure?- Yes.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18I think that's who murdered Mum.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23I think Dad found out who he was.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Mr Watkins?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49My son Marc was with me all night, if that's why you're here.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Is this you?
0:22:12 > 0:22:13My father's boat.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Have you still got it?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19No, she sank.
0:22:20 > 0:22:2210th of September, 1973.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27My father and his friends went down with her.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30I was the only one to survive.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36- The boat had just come out of the yard.- The Bowens' place?
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Yeah.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41We'd been out in worse weather.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45But she was letting in water.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48And you blamed the Bowens?
0:22:48 > 0:22:52The pumps didn't work and the repairs didn't hold.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56If they had, my father and his men would not have been lost.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02I don't understand why my daughter got involved with that family,
0:23:02 > 0:23:04after what they did to us.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07She broke my wife Gwyneth's heart.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14Aron Bowen said that your daughter Abi was seeing somebody else.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19That's what he wanted you to believe, that he was innocent.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Aron Bowen was a murderer, just like his father.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28A coward who wouldn't accept responsibility for what he had done.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32What about your granddaughter, Ffion?
0:23:32 > 0:23:36Huh, that woman wouldn't let us anywhere near her.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Annes?
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Yeah...Annes.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Whatever Annes wants...
0:23:45 > 0:23:47..Annes gets.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Mr Jones?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31CROSSING ALERT WAILS
0:25:54 > 0:25:56TRAIN HORN BLARES
0:26:46 > 0:26:48When bad things happen...
0:26:50 > 0:26:53..do you think it leaves a stain on the place?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06I went to school with a girl who used to live here.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10She was older than me.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Her father was a policeman.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Iwan Thomas?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Her and her mother were murdered.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22I know.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26But we caught the man who did it.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36I told them I'd been to see you.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40I told them I'd been seeing my dad.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43What did they say?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Not a lot.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Nothing ever gets said.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57What do you mean - nothing ever gets said?
0:28:00 > 0:28:01They never talk about my mother.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Never about my father.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08It's like they never existed.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11But if they don't exist...
0:28:11 > 0:28:12They do.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17I'd better get back.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Ffion?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27We will catch whoever killed your father, OK?
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Ffion was in contact with her father.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50They met up.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53She didn't tell you?
0:29:59 > 0:30:03Ffion has this idea of what her father was like.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08The man he once was or the man he could have been.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12But he was never there for her.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15What sort of father is that?
0:30:31 > 0:30:33MOBILE PHONE RINGS
0:30:33 > 0:30:34Lloyd?
0:30:34 > 0:30:37'The till we found at the victim's bedsit,
0:30:37 > 0:30:40'there was an incident involving Aron Bowen.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42'Three days ago.'
0:30:58 > 0:31:02I spoke to the owner, he said Bowen didn't want to call the police.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Didn't want them involved.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06- Cos he was on probation.- Mm-hm.
0:31:58 > 0:31:59When we spoke yesterday,
0:31:59 > 0:32:03you said you hadn't seen Aron Bowen since his release.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08That is you in that photograph, isn't it?
0:32:13 > 0:32:15So I gave him a kicking.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18What difference does it make?
0:32:22 > 0:32:23He killed my sister.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Doesn't mean I had anything to do with his death.
0:32:29 > 0:32:30No?
0:32:32 > 0:32:36I wish I had it in me to do it, but I don't.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41All my life I've wanted him dead.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43And now that he is...
0:32:44 > 0:32:46..it doesn't change anything.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52He should never have come back here.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55If he'd had any sense, he'd have stayed away.
0:32:55 > 0:32:56Why?
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Do you think that way he'd still be alive?
0:33:00 > 0:33:03You had unfinished business with him.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04No.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07The other night at the garage.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09That was just the start of it.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11- A taste of what was to come.- No.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14But once you had a taste for it, there was no stopping you.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16He killed my sister!
0:33:16 > 0:33:18Stabbed her to death!
0:33:18 > 0:33:22Now, everyone round here knows that he did it, everyone except you.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Why are you raking all this up?
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Because he served his time.
0:33:26 > 0:33:27Paid for his crime.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31And now he's dead.
0:33:31 > 0:33:32Murdered...
0:33:32 > 0:33:34just like your sister.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36It's got nothing to do with me,
0:33:36 > 0:33:38I was at my father's house all night.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47You think I'm the only one who wanted him dead?
0:33:48 > 0:33:51His own family couldn't stand the sight of him.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56His father never got over the shame, he drank himself to death.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00And his mother, she hated her own son for what he'd done.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08So, Aron's dead.
0:34:08 > 0:34:09Good.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13The world's a better place without him.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17You don't have to take my word for it, you go talk to his mother
0:34:17 > 0:34:20or brother, they'll tell you the same things as me.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42Tell us about the night Abi was killed.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47Mrs Bowen?
0:34:48 > 0:34:51I heard Aron's car pull up outside.
0:34:53 > 0:34:54I wasn't expecting him.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59He came into the kitchen.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05I could see he'd been involved in some kind of fight.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07He was upset.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10He said that he and Abi had argued.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17That he'd made a mess of his life, he'd...
0:35:17 > 0:35:19he'd made a mess of everything.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21And he knew it.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25And then...?
0:35:27 > 0:35:30Well, I told him to sleep it off, sober up,
0:35:30 > 0:35:32sort it out in the morning.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36He slept here?
0:35:36 > 0:35:37I sent him home.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42And then...
0:35:42 > 0:35:43what did you do?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Well, I went back to bed.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53It was the last I ever saw of him.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00Next morning...
0:36:00 > 0:36:02police came to the house.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Told me what he'd done.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14We warned him not to get involved with that girl.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16But he wouldn't listen.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01"I'm so sorry for all the years of sorrow you've endured.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04"Perhaps I should have said something at the time,
0:37:04 > 0:37:06"but the fact that my daughter was seeing someone else
0:37:06 > 0:37:09"doesn't change what happened that night."
0:37:09 > 0:37:11It's from Abi Watkins' mother, Gwyneth.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Thanking Aron Bowen for all the letters he'd sent her.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16It was written three weeks before she died.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18"I hope you can forgive me for staying silent
0:37:18 > 0:37:22"in the same way that I must forgive you. Yours faithfully, Gwyneth."
0:37:22 > 0:37:25She knew who her daughter was seeing.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Then Aron Bowen was right about the affair.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30Maybe he was right about who killed Abi Watkins too.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45The first letter we received from Aron...
0:37:45 > 0:37:48we thought he was going to say he was sorry.
0:37:50 > 0:37:51Ask for forgiveness.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55We thought maybe he'd admit to what he'd done.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01But he still kept protesting his innocence.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03What did the letter say?
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Nothing that he hadn't said in court.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11But he still kept on writing...
0:38:12 > 0:38:14..one letter after the other.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19We didn't bother reading them in the end.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22We just threw them in the fire.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25I thought the letters had stopped.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27But when Gwyneth died...
0:38:29 > 0:38:31..I found out that...
0:38:32 > 0:38:34..she'd been hiding them.
0:38:35 > 0:38:39Your wife Gwyneth wrote this letter three weeks before she died.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42She thought that Abi was seeing someone else.
0:38:42 > 0:38:43Another man.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49We think Aron Bowen recently found out who Abi was seeing.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53And that man might be responsible for his death.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56Who is he, Mr Watkins?
0:39:11 > 0:39:13'I had nothing to do with it.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16'And what about Abi Watkins?'
0:39:16 > 0:39:17What about her?
0:39:17 > 0:39:21Aron Bowen knew that Abi was seeing someone behind his back.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23And that someone was you.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26What happened? Did Aron find out?
0:39:26 > 0:39:28- Did he come after you?- No.
0:39:28 > 0:39:29Is that why you killed him?
0:39:29 > 0:39:31I didn't kill Aron, that's not what happened.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33Then tell us what did happen!
0:39:43 > 0:39:44Aron knew.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47How?
0:39:47 > 0:39:50I told him, everything. The truth.
0:39:50 > 0:39:51- When?- Last week.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- Why?- Because I wanted him to admit to what he'd done.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57He kept saying it wasn't him that killed Abi,
0:39:57 > 0:40:00kept saying it was this man she was shagging behind his back.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02But I knew that was a lie.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Because that man was you.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13'Where were you the night Aron was killed?
0:40:14 > 0:40:16'I was home.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19'Were you with anyone?
0:40:21 > 0:40:22'No.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24'I was on my own.
0:40:25 > 0:40:26'All night?
0:40:26 > 0:40:28'All night.'
0:40:33 > 0:40:36Tell us about the night Abi was killed.
0:40:42 > 0:40:43Aron had been drinking.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48I met up with him after work. He was in a bad way, he was angry.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51I tried to talk to him, to calm him down.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54He was having none of it.
0:40:54 > 0:40:55We argued.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00And off he went.
0:41:00 > 0:41:02You didn't go after him?
0:41:02 > 0:41:04So what DID you do?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11I went home.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16- But I was worried about Abi, so I went over there.- To see her?
0:41:18 > 0:41:21When I got there, the place was in a hell of a mess.
0:41:23 > 0:41:24They'd been fighting.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Aron was gone.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29But Abi had these marks on her face.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30And then what?
0:41:32 > 0:41:34I got angry.
0:41:35 > 0:41:39I went over to Aron's flat and had it out with him.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40What time was this?
0:41:42 > 0:41:43One.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47His truck was outside, I knew he was in there.
0:41:50 > 0:41:51I just couldn't do it.
0:41:54 > 0:41:55Couldn't face him.
0:41:59 > 0:42:00I just sat there outside his flat.
0:42:05 > 0:42:06Doing nothing.
0:42:07 > 0:42:08Till when?
0:42:11 > 0:42:12Three.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40On the night Abi was killed, Craig said he was outside Aron's flat
0:42:40 > 0:42:42between one and three in the morning.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45This supports Aron's story that he went home that night.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47If Craig Jones is telling the truth.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50The coroner's report puts time of death for Abi Watkins
0:42:50 > 0:42:52between one and four in the morning.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54That still leaves Aron Bowen an hour to account for.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58But Craig Jones's testimony suggests Aron was telling the truth.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01I agree.
0:43:01 > 0:43:02DC Ellis.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04DS Owens.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17A convicted murderer is found dead
0:43:17 > 0:43:20and you're charged with finding the killer.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22We think it's more complicated than that, sir.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26We?
0:43:26 > 0:43:28Yes, sir.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32Craig's testimony casts doubt on the original conviction.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36The Abi Watkins case is closed.
0:43:36 > 0:43:41Aron Bowen was found guilty of her murder.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Now, our priority is to find out who killed Aron Bowen.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47And not to undermine the original conviction.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50But what if both cases go hand in hand, sir?
0:43:50 > 0:43:53Aron Bowen served 13 years for a crime he did or did not commit.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56And now he's lying in a mortuary.
0:43:59 > 0:44:00I supported you, DCI Mathias.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Over Mari Davies.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07And Gwen Thomas.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13I hope you're not suggesting I didn't do my work properly.
0:44:25 > 0:44:26That went well.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28HE LAUGHS SOFTLY
0:44:28 > 0:44:30What do we do about Craig Jones?
0:44:31 > 0:44:33We do what we're told.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36We hold him.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39On the suspicion of killing Aron Bowen.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43Where are you going?
0:44:45 > 0:44:47To talk to Haydn Blake.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12KNOCK ON WINDOW
0:45:16 > 0:45:19Sorry to startle you, Dr Blake.
0:45:19 > 0:45:21That's all right.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00I don't see that Craig Jones' testimony changes anything.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Aron Bowen had an hour in which to commit this crime.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05An hour that can't be accounted for.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08Do you think Aron Bowen was guilty?
0:46:08 > 0:46:13I don't deal in guilt and innocence, I deal in facts,
0:46:13 > 0:46:16and the facts of this case are there in black and white.
0:46:18 > 0:46:22Well, if that's true, why was I told not to talk to you?
0:46:23 > 0:46:25But we are talking.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30Thank you for your time, Dr Blake.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20MOBILE PHONE VIBRATES
0:47:49 > 0:47:52CHILDREN SHOUT ON TV
0:48:08 > 0:48:12It's a pity they can't stay children for ever.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29I've buried a husband...
0:48:29 > 0:48:31lost a son...
0:48:32 > 0:48:33..given my life to the yard...
0:48:35 > 0:48:37..and for what?
0:48:53 > 0:48:55Aron should have stayed away.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57He should never have come back.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59There was nothing left for him here.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05He wanted to be close to Ffion.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09To be a father to his daughter.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14Cal is the only father that Ffion has ever known.
0:49:16 > 0:49:20If Aron really cared for that girl, he'd have left her alone.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30Did you know that Abi was having an affair with Craig Jones?
0:49:33 > 0:49:36Do you think Craig could have killed your son?
0:49:38 > 0:49:41What difference does it make?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43SEAGULLS CRY
0:49:56 > 0:49:58It makes a difference if your son was innocent.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13PATTER OF RAIN
0:53:17 > 0:53:20SPLASH
0:53:50 > 0:53:51Ffion.
0:53:51 > 0:53:53I didn't know where else to go.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02Let me get you a towel.
0:54:29 > 0:54:30There you go.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Sit down, sit down.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10I should take you home. They'll be worried about you.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13No, they won't.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17They never gave Dad a chance.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20None of them did.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31It's my fault he's dead.
0:55:33 > 0:55:37The night he was killed, he phoned me.
0:55:38 > 0:55:42He said he wanted to see me, but I said no.
0:55:43 > 0:55:46I couldn't keep lying like that.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52As soon as I hung up, I regretted it.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56I tried to phone him back.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59But the line was busy.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05If I'd have seen him that night, maybe he'd still be alive.
0:56:15 > 0:56:16Are those your little girls?
0:56:19 > 0:56:21Mm-hm, yeah.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26Do you miss them?
0:56:28 > 0:56:29Every day.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Hey...
0:57:06 > 0:57:08No.
0:57:10 > 0:57:13- Sorry.- No, don't be silly, it's OK.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22I'm going to take you home.
0:57:22 > 0:57:23All right?
0:57:26 > 0:57:28OK, stay there.
0:57:56 > 0:57:58Ffion!
0:58:02 > 0:58:03Ffion!
0:58:09 > 0:58:11I'm no saint.
0:58:11 > 0:58:12I'm no angel.
0:58:12 > 0:58:15I may not be the best dad in the world.
0:58:15 > 0:58:17I may not be the best human being in the world.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19But that doesn't make me a killer.
0:58:23 > 0:58:26- You need to stop this. - I had no choice.
0:58:26 > 0:58:27The truth!